How to clean up old plastic?

[Taipan]

I have my Dads old binoculars I bought him many many years ago. The casings have done that sweating gluey stuff thst this type of material does. Anyone know what to cleaner it off with and how to prevent it coming back?
TIA

[David]

Meths and a cloth....but you won't stop it coming back.

[Taipan]

Istr being told once it starts it spread’s constantly!

[Cousin Jack]

I tried, and succeeded short term. A week or so later it was tacky again, a month after that it was full blown gunge.

[Skub]

Same happened to the grips on an old pair of mine. I was able to take the grips off,I'm not sure if that would work for you.

[Count Steer]

I've got a couple of radios like it. Getting sticky and being in bedrooms don't go together well (well, not as far as radios go ). It's the solvents/plasticisers that give them the tactile feel leaching out. Nothing you can do really. I even tried a last resort of dusting them with talc. It didn't look great but they stopped being sticky for a while!

[Horse]

It's the solvents/plasticisers that give them the tactile feel leaching out.

I have a moulded Craghoppers belt that went sticky. With use, it stopped. But ... the flexible latch mechanism also stopped working at the same. Luckily, I adjusted my waist measurement so that the trews fitted better (albeit one size down)

[Taipan]

We’ll this was the attempt with the wife’s face wipes and finished of with chemical guys tire gel!


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[Cousin Jack]

Just hope it lasts. I have some doubt, although I have never tried that combination.

[Screwdriver]

Dust the sticky parts with talcum powder. I had to do this with my Kindle. Sweaty hands cause the plastic to degrade, there's no coming back from it but talcum makes it bearable and should last weeks.

[ZRX61]

Happened to a GoPro I had, binned it.